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Bell (William). A New General Atlas from the Best Authorities Exhibiting the Boundaries and Divisions of the Principal Countries on the Known World, Edinburgh: Thomas Nelson, 1840, engraved title, contents leaf and twenty-nine engraved maps, hand coloured in outline and all complete as list, some light foxing and a few short marginal tears, contemp. half calf with moire cloth boards and paper label to upper cover, sl. rubbed, 4to (1)
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Agate (W.). Diary of a Tour in South Africa, Paisley, Printed for Private Circulation, 1912, plts. from photos., orig. morocco-backed boards, sl. rubbed, 4to, together with Fyfe (H. Hamilton), South Africa To-Day, with An Account of Modern Rhodesia, Nash, 1911, plts. from photos., orig. cloth gilt, rubbed, 8vo, plus Butt (Rev. G.E.), My Travels in North West Rhodesia, Dalton, c.1910, port. frontis., plts. from photos., spotting to edges, orig. cloth gilt, and Harding (Col. Colin), Frontier Patrols, A History of the British South Africa Police and other Rhodesian Forces, Bell & Sons, 1938, port. frontis., plts. from photos., orig. cloth, rubbed, 8vo, plus Hole (Hugh Marshall), Old Rhodesian Days, Macmillan, 1928, port. frontis., plts. from photos., folding map, a couple of owner ink stamps, orig. cloth gilt, marked on lower cover, 8vo, and four others, related (9)
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* Japan - Nagasaki. An album of twenty albumen prints [by Felice Beato], c. 1864, including town views, street scenes, temples and boats with figures, birds-eye views of the town, boats on estuary mud, a tea house on a bridge on Tocaido Road, plus an extra albumen print of a large group of Europeans posing on rough ground, all images approx. 21 x 28 cm, most with English pencil captions beneath, some fading throughout, mounts badly dampstained with some purple colour on the majority of images, contemp. traditional style Japanese album with pictorial wooden boards, backstrip deficient, and covers det., oblong folio. Felice Beato arrived in Japan in 1862/3 and lived in Yokohama from 1863 until 1884. He visited Nagasaki in 1864 and took some of the earliest known photographs in this region. Three of the rare photographs in this album are also in the collection of Japanese old photographs in Bakumatsu-Meiji Period at Nagasaki University. These are a photograph of the Bell Tower within the Daionji Temple compounds in Teramaschi (no. 1286); the tea house on the Tocaido Road, upstream on Nakashima River, the oldest known photograph of this bridge (no. 1289); and a general view of Nagasaki from Battery Hill from around the cemetery of Donnoyama in Koshima (no. 1292). (1)
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Horseracing. Anecdotes Relating to the Antiquity and Progress of Horse-Races, for Above Two Thousand Years, printed for J. Bell (Successor to Mr. Bathoe) near Exeter Exchange in the Strand, and C. Etherington in York, 1769, 35pp. (inc. title), pages trimmed to margins and window mounted onto separate leaves, title with near contemp. short manuscript note, includes three additional 18th c. newspaper cuttings pasted to separate leaves, bound together in early 19th c. half calf, slight wear to upper joint & extrems., 8vo (resized to 4to). Rare. (1)
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Dickson, Adam A Treatise of Agriculture, 2 volumes, first edition of volume 2, second edition of volume 1, 2 folding engraved plates, contemporary calf, 8vo, Edinburgh, A. Kincaid and J. Bell, 1765, one plate torn without loss, slight marginal discolouration to volume 1, slightly rubbed Provenance: Signature of John Hamilton at head of titles.
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Smith, Adam The Theory of Moral Sentiments, second edition, with initial blank leaf, contemporary calf, 8vo, London: A. Millar, A. Kincaid and J. Bell, 1761, some spotting and slight damp-staining, very slightly rubbed Provenance: Signature of John Hamilton at head of title Note: Rather than the more widely known "The Wealth of Nations" it was "The Theory of Moral Sentiments", first published in 1759, which made Adam Smith's career. It was the sensation of its age and sold out in weeks.
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Stuart, Gilbert A View of Society in Europe, in its Progress from Rudeness to Refinement, first edition, half-title, errata leaf at end, contemporary calf, 4to, John Bell and J. Murray, 1778, worn Provenance: Bookplate of H. Askew Note: First edition of Stuart's "most important treatise" (D.N.B.)
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A brass barrelled percussion blunderbuss, 32?" overall, earlier bell mouth barrel 16?" with early B'ham proofs (?), engraved back action lock with name "Atkinson", walnut fullstock with chequered wrist, engraved brass mounts, recently fitted with a 14?" triangular spring bayonet released by thumb catch on breech tang. WO & GC (some restoration)
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A 19th Century longcase clock, the eight day movement striking to bell with painted arched dial depicting a chinoiserie figure scene with floral spandrels, seconds dial and date aperture, inscribed Jn Snowden, Grimsby, in oak case with pagoda hood on fluted supports, canted trunk, on panelled base and bracket feet, 86 1/2" high.
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A late 18th Century longcase clock, the eight-day movement striking to bell, with arched brass dial inscribed Jn Bower, Falkirk, having date and seconds dials, silvered chapter ring and cast scrolling spandrels, in oak case with swan neck pediment, dentil cornice over fluted pilasters, shaped door, on panel base and bracket feet, 91" high.
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An Edward VII M.S.M. Group of Four to Sergeant F. Bell, Royal Engineers China 1857-60 two clasps, Taku Forts 1860 Pekin 1860 (Sapper Fredk. Bell. 10th C. Royal Engrs.); Abyssinia 1867-68 (5760 2. Corpl. F. Bell. Royal Engrs.); Army Long Service & G.C., V.R. (5760. Sergt. F. Bell, Rl. Engineers); Meritorious Service Medal, E.VII.R. (Sjt: F. Bell. R.E.), suspension mount re-affixed on Abyssinia, very fine or better (4)
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